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Is that something Google wants? I don't see the advantage for them short of adding on C# devs
C# offers more support for memory friendly coding and performance than Java, which could ultimately improve Android's performance. Of course, this would only work if they switch languages, which I don't see the Android team doing willingly without upper management "help".
Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.
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I haven't done a lot of 'Windows exclusive' development for a while, but something like 6-8 years ago, I was making an installer for a small company that up to that moment, they had to send someone over to spend a whole day installing the software on client's machines. I was strongly suggested to use WiX. I spent 2 months trying to get something to work, but I wasn't able to get nothing truly useful to run. I remembe…
Can NSIS by now roll-back partially failed installations? That's to me the biggest gripe I have as a user of such installers – whenever something weird goes wrong you end up with a half-installed application of which you don't know how to get rid of the pieces.
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Not attacking you opinion at all but I'm a little shocked that someone would have this opinion, I work at a Java shop (using java 8 but I'm mostly now on the node.js side). Java 8 really doesn't have any features that are better than C#'s. Java 8 is missing some pretty major ones, like type inference, automatic getters/setters, LINQ, function passing support that's not brain dead, and a number of of things that make…
While I prefer C#'s delegates/lambdas, there has been an occasional time I've wished for the ability to construct a full instanced object in that case - Java's anonymous inner classes are brilliant at this. Likewise Java's OOP enums (basically singletons) are something I miss too. That's a few small features I notice missing when I switch to C#. Plus, in general I find there's a difference in style. C# libraries tend…
I like the laptop with a bunch of lovely Microsoft technologies, and then WiX. Please, please die WiX. Imperative XML + non-deterministic execution order + the worst error messages of the entire stack. I love C# and the CLR, but damn WiX sucks.
I stopped doing .NET dev almost 7 years ago. At the time, WiX was terrible, but then so were a lot of things. .NET didn't even have a deployment story back in those days.
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I doubt it's going to be a first-class citizen like Java anytime soon. there is a lot of Innovation going on, with the new open source .NET. the CoreRT[1] project compiles C#->C++->Machine code for any platform, including ARM. and Samsung has been a big contributor to make that happen. and today during the Connect() event, they announced that every Xamarin forms app will run on Tizen[2]. [1] https://github.com/dotnet…
Where did you get that they compile C# to C++? I thought .NET Native was compiling to machine code, maybe with IL in between, but certainly not via another high-level language.
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Dart doesn't have the adoption yet and has a different plan when it comes to mobile ( https://github.com/flutter/flutter ). I love Go, but it's not really a suitable language to do UI, or anything that deals with data models. C#, however, is a perfect replacement for Java, most of the times. I would say "it's simply superior in every imaginable metric other than cross-platform implementations of the compiler/VM" but…
Just go use Kotlin instead. Much nicer than C#, runs on any JVM.
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An opinion without justification adds nothing.
Care to justify that opinion?
Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.
"Google Cloud" joined, not "Google". https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Google-Cloud-to...
In this spirit of enabling developers and their organizations, Google is pleased to be joining the Technical Steering Group of the .NET Foundation. .NET is a key component in the modern enterprise, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team has worked hard to ensure that .NET has first-class support on Google’s infrastructure, including excellent infrastructure for Windows.